The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.